Seaford Rotary

volunteers’ Thank you Buffet

On Friday 12th March, volunteers who helped Seaford Rotary collect a record sum by accompanying Santa’s sleigh through the streets of Seaford in December, were welcomed at the Crossways Church, Blatchington Hall to a thank you buffet meal.

President Elect Ann Reed welcomed the guests and introduced members of Seaford Rotary who chair or represented the Club’s committees – John Owen: Membership, Paul Vaesen: Youth Services, Bill Pierce: International, Dave Argent: Fundraising and Clive Livingstone: Community Service – before inviting the guests to help themselves to drinks and food. The Rotarians, supported by wives and husbands, provided an opportunity for the volunteers and Friends to discuss how they may be able to help the Rotary Club with future events (photo above).

President Elect Ann Reed said that a sleigh volunteer after she had thanked him told her: ‘It was a pleasure, I loved seeing the happy faces of the children’. A suggestion from a volunteer that Seaford Rotary should publish an alternative, slimmer version of Newsmonger, giving advance details of future events and the Our thanks go to Morrisons who donated some items for the buffet and to the Rotarian wives who also provided and served some delicious food in addition to ‘washing up’.

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Supporting humanitarian efforts for ukraine

Rotary District has set up a Crowdfunding Page in aid of Ukraine through which anyone – including the public – can make a donation for which the Rotary will match fund the first £10,000. Every penny donated goes directly to those in need. The weblink is: www.rotaryhelpsukraine.com.

Donations from this fund are sent to: • Romania/Moldova towards supplies and emergency accommodation, including for protein to feed 5,000 refugees for a week in Moldova; • International Rotary Fellowship of Health

Professionals (who are co-ordinating medical supplies into Ukraine) towards medical supplies; • Shelterbox towards their efforts in Moldova and Poland; • Poland towards accommodation and supplies provision; • Ukraine District for urgent supplies for the displaced persons inside west Ukraine. Rotary is also working to help the displaced people arriving daily in the countries surrounding Ukraine, and has volunteers at the borders of Ukraine with Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania and Moldova 24 hours each day.

Donations go directly to trusted colleagues in the Ukraine and all its bordering countries. They can identify the real needs of refugees in each country – medicines (especially dressings and pain killers for adults and children), warm socks, thermals, food, bullet-proof vests, blankets, sleeping bags, first aid kits, dressings, hygiene products, toiletries, sanitary towels, nappies, wet wipes, torches, batteries, candles, laptops, phones, tablets with good batteries and much more. Seaford Rotary has donated £4,000 to the Disaster

Emergency Committee fund for Ukraine. Donations up to £20 million to this fund will be match funded by the Government, and thus the £4,000 effectively becomes £8,000. In addition to the £4,000 to be donated from the Seaford Rotary Charitable Trust, members of Seaford Rotary collected donations for humanitarian aid for Ukraine at Morrisons on 19th March and in Broad Street on 26th March.

In the two collections a sum of £1,082.12 was donated by the public, and it is hoped to pass this money to Seaford for Ukraine – a newly organised group with the objective of helping Ukrainian refugees to settle in Seaford.

Our thanks to all of you who put money in our buckets or collecting cans. Seaford Rotary welcomes new members and new Friends of Seaford Rotary. For more information contact us on www.seafordrotary.org.uk.

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